
J. Artur SerranoNTNU/Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
J. Artur Serrano
Doctor of Philosophy
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Artur Serrano is Professor in Care Technology and Well-being at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and holds a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Has been doing interdisciplinary research activity in health technology for over 20 years. His research interests lie in the application of care and assistive technologies in the treatment of neurocognitive disorders and mental health disorders, the use of social robots for care and well-being, and a
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This study investigates what older adults want from social robots. Older adults are often presented with social robots designed based on developers’ assumptions that only vaguely address their actual needs. By lacking an understanding of older adults’ opinions of what technology should or could do for them–and what it should not do–we risk users of...
Empathy maps are currently used to help developers understand their users’ needs and aims. We present the results of an empathy map-based design process, in terms of user satisfaction with user experience. The goal of the project was to develop a new technology for a reminiscence therapy-based multimodal intervention aimed to improve the reality or...
Meaningful activities in dementia care can promote the co-construction of narrative identity in caregiving relationships, helping to preserve the sense of self in people with dementia.
Purpose: Informed by symbolic interactionism and Deweyan transactionalism, the aim of this study was to develop a transactional model of how narrative identity and r...
Background
Person-centred care is widely recognised as important for helping people with dementia maintain a sense of self and purpose in life – especially for those living in care facilities. Despite this, most care practices still adopt a medical approach in which physical needs are prioritized over psychosocial well-being. Addressing the need to...
In this article we look at the home as an arena for care by exploring how care robots and technological care-systems can become part of older adults’ lives. We investigate the domestication of robot technology in the context of what in Scandinavia is called “welfare technology” (relating to the terms “gerontechnology” and “Active Assisted Living,”)...
This article studies perceptual differences of three social robots by elementary school children of ages 6–13 years (n = 107) at research fairs. The autonomous humanoid robot Pepper, an advanced social robot primarily designed as a personal assistant with movement and mobility, is compared to the teleoperated AV1 robot—designed to help elementary s...
The COVID-19 pandemic is showing troubling othering demographic discourses. For older adults in particular, there are concerning thematics that should be shined light on. In this editorial, we provide perspectives from three countries: Norway, Italy and the United States. We provide four topics of discussion that can be utilized to further understa...
This book chapter explores how experiences of isolation and loneliness in remote areas can be mitigated through social robots' emotional care. We first discuss the concept of being social and how that notion is changing with rapid digitalization. The research for this chapter zooms in the context of remote regions, characterized by vast geographica...
There is a growing interest in using technology to provide meaningful activities for people living with dementia. The aim of this systematic review was to identify and explore the different types of digital technologies used in creating individualized, meaningful activities for people living with dementia. From 1414 articles identified from searche...
In this paper, an eHealth system is described to improve the lifestyle of people with dementia and their caregivers. In the eWare project, a social robot is integrated with a sensor network to measure ADLs with the goal to provide context relevant suggestions to the person with dementia and reduce the caregiver burden. Furthermore, the context rele...
Background:
The number of people living with dementia is rapidly increasing. With dementia's impact on memory, communication, and self-identity, it is important to identify ways of meeting individual needs of diagnosed individuals and their caregivers. This study will test a new intervention, SENSE-GARDEN, that integrates autobiographical music, f...
This paper presents early stage research on the development of an immersive, multisensory room for people living with dementia. Dementia is considered to be a public health priority on a global level. Our research addresses the challenge of meeting individual needs in dementia care, particularly in relation to social and emotional wellbeing. We dra...
BACKGROUND
The number of people living with dementia is rapidly increasing. With dementia’s impact on memory, communication, and self-identity, it is important to identify ways of meeting individual needs of diagnosed individuals and their caregivers. This study will test a new intervention, SENSE-GARDEN, that integrates autobiographical music, fil...
Technology is present in all aspects of our life today. In order to ensure increased acceptance and usability for new technologies, a user-centred approach is promoted in regards to design and development. When the primary users of the new technology are people facing cognitive challenges, specific aspects must be addressed in order to provide a sa...
Background: The authors present a case study of a public health campaign, including social media, and aiming at maximizing the use of web app on sexual health. Objective: To analyze the impact of a Facebook fan page, Facebook advertisements, and posters to maximize the number of visits to the educational web app. Methods: The campaign is assessed f...
SENSE-GARDEN Project’s aim is to create Information and communication technology (ICT) enhanced environments which will serve as therapeutical spaces for Reminiscence Therapy (RT) and Multisensory Stimulation (MS) interventions, for people with dementia (PWD).
Objective: To identify the optimal parameters of space designed for RT and MS for PwD in...
A radar chart is a known graphical method for displaying multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart. This type of graphical representation has been used for the visualization of large amounts of data over a given time period [1]. In healthcare, each year there are more and more tracked data. It is expected that by 2030, with the rapid...
This paper presents early stage research on the development of an immersive, multisensory room for people living with dementia. Dementia is considered to be a public health priority on a global level. Our research addresses the challenge of meeting individual needs in dementia care, particularly in relation to social and emotional wellbeing. We dra...
Many elderly people prefer to live at home independently. They and their relatives face challenges with respect to physical and mental health care in this environment. In addition, the traditional model of hospital-based centralized healthcare is now under stress due to the ageing population worldwide, especially in countries, such as Japan, China...
Background: The authors present a case study of a public health campaign, including social media, and aiming at maximizing the use of web app on sexual health. Objective: To analyze the impact of a Facebook fan page, Facebook advertisements, and posters to maximize the number of visits to the educational web app. Methods: The campaign is assessed f...
There is growing interest in having objective assessment of health-related outcomes using technology-based devices that provide unbiased measurements which can be used in clinical practice and scientific research. Many studies have investigated the clinical manifestations of Parkinson’s disease using such devices. However, clinimetric properties an...
Introduction:
Dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients are a common side effect of long-term dopaminergic therapy and are associated with motor dysfunctions, including gait and balance deficits. Although promising compounds have been developed to treat these symptoms, clinical trials have failed. This failure may, at least partly, be expla...
In North Norway, no telemonitoring services for chronic heart failure (CHF) have yet been established, hence no investigations in the area have been published. However, large distances and a sparse population are causes for extra expenditure on hospital visits. In this paper, we describe the ePoint.telemed platform for home telemonitoring of CHF pa...
Background
Currently, assessment of symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease is mainly performed in the clinic. However, these assessments have limitations because they provide only a snapshot of the condition.
Methods
The feasibility and usability of an objective, continuous and relatively unobtrusive system (SENSE-PARK System), which consist...
In North Norway no routine home telemonitoring services for chronic heart failure has yet been established and hence no investigations in the field have been published, although large distances and a sparse population are causes for extra public and private expenditure on travelling for patients when they make a visit to the hospital. In this paper...
Chlamydia is the most common reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD) in Norway, and its incidence in the two northernmost counties has been disclosed to be nearly the double of the Norwegian average. The latest publicly available rates showed that 85.6% of the new cases were diagnosed in people under 29 years old.
The information and communic...
For those in the later years of their life, living alone can be challenging and unsafe. It also places a heavy burden on the friends and family who routinely offer informal care. As the population ages, this burden will increase, placing an unsustainable demand on public care systems. In this context, telecare – technology and services enabling peo...
Background
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with fluctuating symptoms. To aid the development of a system to evaluate people with PD (PwP) at home (SENSE-PARK system) there was a need to define parameters and tools to be applied in the assessment of 6 domains: gait, bradykinesia/hypokinesia, tremor, sleep, balance and cognit...
Background: There is a growing interest in the objective assessment of health related outcomes using technology providing quality measurements to be applied not only in daily clinical practice, but also in scientific research. Differences in the understandings of the condition and the terminology used between people with Parkinson's (PwPs), clinici...
Background:
Online social media, such as the microblogging site Twitter, have become a space for speedy exchange of information regarding sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), presenting a potential risk environment for how STDs are portrayed. Examining the types of "tweeters" (users who post messages on Twitter) and the nature of "tweet" messages...
The reality of a Parkinson’s Disease patient involves coping with the condition 24 hours a day for the rest of her or his life. A continuous decay of physical and sometimes cognitive functions makes activities of daily life progressively more difficult to accomplish. Many keep a diary where they take note of feelings, relevant events related to the...
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in Norway; and 85,7% of reported chlamydia cases are found in persons below 29 years of age. Methods:The web app sjekkdeg.no aims at providing information for Norwegian secondary school students about the prevention of STDs. The development of the app was based on a constructivist lear...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and especially chlamydia is a worrying problem among North-Norwegian youngsters. Gamified web applications should be valued for sexual health education, and thus STDs prevention, for their potential to get users engaged and involved with their healthcare. Aiming to achieve that youngsters become more aware of ST...
Background
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially the Chlamydia trachomatis bacterial infection, a common cause of infertility, are highly prevalent in developed countries, and a worrying problem in North Norway, where the incidence of chlamydia twice the Norwegian average. Seventy percent of reported chlamydia cases are found in people b...
Participatory design has been widely accepted as an effective strategy for understanding and including users’ needs in technology development. But the successful integration of user participation depends on the way it is carried out, that is, when and how are the users involved in the process, how are the users’ needs and requirements transferred t...
This paper tends to present how eLearning strategies and policies used, in a Portuguese district (Aveiro), are enhancing learning and knowledge for heterogeneous audiences with constraints that are beyond the usual. Besides time to learn and physical distance, they face new challenges like, the need to get specialized in areas where economy is grow...
Participatory design has been widely accepted as an effective strategy for understanding and including users' needs in technology development. But the successful integration of user participation depends on the way it is carried out, that is, when and how are the users involved in the process, how are the users' needs and requirements transferred t...
This paper presents the approach followed to design the Ambient Assisted Living Services considered for its implementation
and validation during PERSONA project. A methodology based on Goal Oriented Design have been followed in iterative cycles
to incorporate insights from different stakeholders to the selected services, enriching and refining them...
Technologies and learning platforms approaches are changing each day, one of the reasons for it is that organizations, enterprises and institutions are growing and producing more knowledge, whereas workers are becoming knowledge workers and need to be adapted for the fast change and share of information. From past experience, it has been denoted th...
Executive summary Learning systems have emerged in a set of different information systems, oriented for different kinds of organizations and institutions, such as learning management systems, knowledge management systems and learning content management systems, which can be integrated or merged with others. From past experience, it has been denoted...
An integrated platform for the support of teaching activities as been developed and deployed at the Aveiro Norte Polytechnic School of the University of Aveiro. In this paper we present an approach to Learning Roadmaps for Higher Education based on this platform. The aprend.e platform – Electronic Integrated System for Learning and Training -has at...
This paper describes the work developed in the scope of the European project TEAM-HOS, regarding the experience of using the ''Unified Modelling Language'' (UML) as a tool for modelling optimal solutions in healthcare. In this paper, we explain how UML is being used to cover information and process modelling as well as for modelling organisational...
A new approach to the formal specification of software design methods, such as ER or State Transition Diagrams, is presented. A formal language based on semantic constraints is used to specify those methods. An example using the UML's Activity Diagrams is given which illustrates the proposed approach. The aim of this work is to provide a bridge acr...
In this paper we propose a language to produce formal high-level specifications of modelling techniques based on diagrammatic notations such as Dataflow Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams or the Entity-Relationship technique. The language, called VCt, is based on set theory and a form of predicate logic. It is aimed at expressing the semantics of...
A 39-year-old male Venezuelan farmer from a low socio-economic and educational background and resident of the town of Pedraza, Barinas state (which is located in the southwestern region of Venezuela) came to the city of Merida for a clinical evaluation of a small painless << tumor-like >> lesion located on the dorsal area of the right toe. The pati...
Introduction Data models are defined at a very high abstraction level. This provides them with one of their most important characteristics: generecity. As a result they can be used across a broad range of application domains. But if generecity is a desired feature, the extremely high abstraction level makes data models difficult to understand by do...
Current software tools supporting diagramming notations are not satisfactory. Editors for diagramming notations such as state transition networks, Petri nets or the entity-relationship data model, are always confronted with a problem: how much guidance should be given to the user throughout the editing task? Not enough guidance allows the diagram t...
Introduction As a result of the rapid development of the graphical capabilities of workstations and personal computers, several new kinds of visual formalisms are emerging. Two common approaches are those that employ the graph grammars [Rekers94] and the theory of icons [Chang90]. Systems that make use of these new formalisms work best if there are...